Isaiah 38:17
Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
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Job 3:25For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
Psalms 10:2The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 30:6As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
Psalms 85:2Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
Psalms 88:4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms 103:4Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 38:10-22
Hezekiah's Thanksgiving. ( b. c. 710.) 9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness: 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 11 I said, I shall not see the Lord , even the Lord , in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will… Read the whole commentary →